Even before the goblins appear, Mardu is moving, guided by his keen awareness of danger. Moving in a smooth glide, he meets the kobolds coming over the ridge. As soon as he is amongst them he slides easily into the circular motions of the Five Storms, spinning through them lashing out with hands, feet, elbows and knees alike.

In a heartbeat, Squee has his blades out and whirled them in his hands. Taking advantage of his quick speed for his size he plunges forward dodging the kobolds until he gets to the edge of battle and the archers. He starts his killing spree there making quick slashes with his blades at their arms. Even if they survive they won't be able to do much with their bows.

He looked to the ridge along the road and noticed the footprints. 'The attack would come from there,' he thought as the first of the Kobold lances appeared. Liguria had his weapons in hand before the second piece of steel cleared off the crest of the ridge and pointed his spear to the attack and his first target.

"Perhaps the trouble has already found us. Let's make quick work of this, Raaah!" The captain yelled encouragement, launching his coral spear into the the wave of Kobolds. With a quick flick of his wrist, his sword moved from left to right, and he twirled the blade menacingly like a blender waiting for fresh fruit.

"Right... like I said, ambush... Let's see...thirty kobolds total... I'll take the archers!" whipped her sword free in a blur of silver, the crusader throws back her hood and focuses on her martial skills, leaping into the air and rather than be drawn back to the ground, a pair of pure white wings of light sprout from her back and bare her aloft to deal with the no doubt shocked kobolds as she cuts into their ranks...

...or she would have had Squee not rushed off towards the archers she just told everyone she would deal with. Since her going after him would weaken the force on the ground for no good reason, she looks swiftly to how the others are doing.

Tutek had already waded into combat using his strength to good effect, she had no worry for him quite honestly against so lowly a foe, and Mardu was showing what he could do, moving almost faster than she could follow, attacking many of the kobolds at once.

She instead turns to protect their flank, brandishing her sword menacingly and joining the fray fearlessly, keeping track of her allies, ready to move to protect them aside from Squee who was too far away.

Mardu moves swiftly, charging the main line, and going against the tide of Kobolds. His hands and feet are as deadly as any blade, and at first contact Mardu takes the lead in the kill count. He drops three of the Kobolds, snapping their necks from the force of his blows. Though the forth of his targets manages to raise it's shield in the nick of time. The power from the kick is so great, the wooden shield shatters, but the Kobold remains standing.

Squee spots the opening created by Mardu and kicks into full speed and charges up the slop. With amazing agility the Goblin closes in on the Kobold and slips his master craft dagger into the throat of the first archer. A spray of blood rains over Squee as the Kobold dies.

Tutek is not one to be left out of the blood spilling, and bull rushes a near by Kobold. With his amazing strength, he obliterates a kobold, leaving it little more than a blood stain on the ground. With out wasting a heart beat, he does the same to another.

Silver charges the flankers, and gracefully stabs on of the reptile men in the face, through the visor of the old rusted helm it wore.

Charis took the other six that tried to encircle the group, using her blade of agony, all six began to cry and scream in pain. The one closest to Charis began to cry blood, and suddenly he fell down face first, a pinkish red liquid that use to be it's brains oozed out of it's ears.

Liguria took hold of his coral spear and lunged it at a nearby Kobold, but perhaps he was more dehydrated than he realised, as the Kobold knocked the spear away with ease.

Okay back to math.

6 of the 12 on the Slope are dead. 1 of 6 flankers is dead. 1 of 6 other flankers are dead, ad the other 5 are suffering from penalties. 1 Archer is dead, 5 remain.

Insight Checks of 15 will allow players to see that their moral is starting to waver.

The tiny spears bounce off Tutek's hard hairy skin. "Puny kobolds..." the ogre mutters, reading to break havoc once more. He leans on trying to grabs one of the kobolds, but the squirrelly evasive thing escapes his enormous hand. "Stay still so I can grab you!" he bellows in frustration.

She looked down at Galadriel, taking a knee and covering her ears. Charis knew her songs were on the dark side of human preference, but it was also the only kind that Charis knew how to charge with her magic.

When a kobold bled through its face and died in front of her, Charis took the sound, reflected it off her blade and sent the feeling of death and despair out onto the battlefield.

Charis's Affliction is progressive, so she's continuing her song and using the agonizing wails to enhance the effect (descriptor for the progressive extra).

Two Kobolds closed in on the Merfolk Captain, he dashed between the two and as they swung their blades to cleave him in two, he moved out of the way. The two Kobold's screamed in terror as they cut into each other.

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Mardu moved amongst the kobolds like the storms his maneuver was named for. Striking with careful precision, he slays three of the kobolds and shatters the shield of a fourth.

Suddenly he finds himself under counterattack. Most of the clumsy blows are easily avoided, but one strike, either by luck or unexpected skill, comes close to hitting him. He moves aside quickly, swatting the weapon away casually. As he does though, however, he feels another blade a fraction of a second before it buries itself in his spine. He manages to avoid it, but at the cost of a long, shallow cut along his ribs.

<Fool! Do not let your concentration waver, even against such as these.>

Shaping his hand into a mighty claw. Mardu strikes at the kobold who injured him, slashing at him with talon-like fingers. After he strikes he leaps backwards, covering a good thirty feet before landing in a fighting crouch.

LIgiuria's spear sticks in the ground instead of the flesh he'd aimed for. Baring his shark like teeth, the captain shows his anger and knocks aside the attacks coming for him. Using his blade, he twisted the incoming attacks and helped the kobolds find new targets in each other. With their weapons harmlessly out of the way, the Mer Captain moved past the Kabolds to where his spear is. He clears the area with a calculated slash of his coral sword.

The crusader moves swiftly and nimbly, turning aside attacks that would otherwise have hit, shifting and taking the attacks she doesn't parry on her armor, glancing them harmlessly aside. One kobold does manage to score her arm, but the divine power coursing through her as she fights mends the damage just as swiftly.

Noticing Mardu taking light damage, but wanting to keep the group's fighting strength as high as possible, Silver's blade shines with divine silver light as she takes a swing for the kobold who manged to damage her, if momentarily, striking true with a two-handed riposte, causing the silver energy around her sword to whirl like a silver wind, and with a second motion of her blade, Silver sends the silver wind towards Mardu to attempt to heal his wound.

More god awful rolls for the Kobolds, so I said screw it and did this...

More and more kobolds fall at the hands of the adventurers, and yet none of their attacks seem to have very much effect. The monk and the cleric both seem to heal instantly, the ogre seems impenetrable, and the others seem untouchable. It is no wonder the moral falters. With half their comrades killed in seconds, and the enemy still at full strength, the lines crumble. The kobolds began fleeing in every direction...

The adventurers are given a moment to breath. They have no wounded, and over all seem in excellent shape.

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